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Cuffed by the Queen
Debby Drake

In a galaxy light years away from his native Texan homeland, Captain Rick Hernandez of the USSA is in a world of trouble. Crash landing on a planet ran by militant female aliens, he must keep his wits about him and survive their harsh prison camps so that he can find a way back to Earth.

Yoshiri is a beautiful warrior and primary consort to the aging alien queen Aristellia. She has been in the queen’s service since first reaching adulthood and knows no life outside of her servitude to her country. She is honor bound to her lover and majesty, but when she meets a handsome prisoner, she feels a passion she has never known.

Can Rick manage to escape the brutality of the POW camps to find his freedom? Can Yoshiri somehow find the strength to leave her past for the man of her dreams?

Compendium

Matthew Mather

Compendium
Matthew Mather

500 pages of million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather's award-winning works, including his novella Enlightenment, an exclusive collection of short stories only available here, plus starts of bestsellers CyberStorm, Darknet, Nomad, and Atopia Chronicles.

BONUS: exclusive to Discover Sci-Fi readers, this also includes the first chapters of his next release THE DREAMING TREE, launching in July 2019.

Runners and Riders

Jordan Elizabeth

Runners and Riders
Jordan Elizabeth

Juliet loved growing up at the seaside. She never expected her seaman father to inherit a fortune and move the family to New Addison City. Suddenly her mother is a socialite and Juliet is best friends with a strong-willed girl who actually likes her. When Juliet’s new friend welcomes her to the Runners, a gang that has plagued the East Coast for years, Juliet sees it as the opportunity to fit in, learn tricks, and make eyes at one of the hottest members. What the gang does isn’t really wrong…right? She’s used to being a pawn for the Runners, but she starts to question what she sees as harmless fun when the gang uses her to attack a young officer.

Z-Minus 1
Perrin Briar

Once infected, the virus shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us.

But the process takes eight hours.

If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do?

For Chris Smith, that decision has been made for him. He’s infected, and returns home to find the rest of his family undead or missing, save his youngest daughter Maisie. He’s never been much of a father, but can he make up for it now in the final few hours of his life and find somewhere safe for her to survive?

Red Desert - Point of No Return

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Red Desert - Point of No Return
Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Anna left at dawn.
She entered the Martian desert, all alone.
Where is she going?
What secret is she hiding?

In what looks like a suicide attempt, Swedish exobiologist Anna Persson secretly leaves Station Alpha at the crack of dawn to travel deep into the Martian desert in a pressurised rover.
As she journeys to the limit of her two day oxygen supply, she shows us memories of events from her past leading up to the mission. Little by little, as time and oxygen run out, she reveals the real Anna.
Whatever her goal, wherever it is, will Anna reach her destination?

Big screen material! This talented author brings the reader into a new world where adventure awaits at every turn. The descriptions are well though out, the characters pop off of the page. Don't miss this one!

Monticelli's original Italian has been translated to English for her Red Desert series, giving a charming flavor to the prose. Her characters are 3d, and her hard sci-fi setting is researched impeccably. Novella-length book one, "Point of no return," serves as an introduction, constructing the hooks that power future volumes and ramping up the tension and mystery.

Diffusion

Stan C. Smith

Diffusion
Stan C. Smith

On a field trip to remote Papua, Quentin Darnell and his students stumble upon an object that could change the world forever. But things begin to unravel, and Quentin realizes his own injured son is the only barrier to their escape.

What would you sacrifice to bring to light the greatest discovery in human history?

If you like mind-bending science fiction, stories of alien contact, or wilderness survival stories, don't miss this first book in the thrilling Diffusion series.

Ace Tucker Space Trucker (Preview)

James R. Tramontana

Ace Tucker Space Trucker (Preview)
James R. Tramontana

Can a dimwitted trucker, a Russian cyborg chimp, a KFC cashier and a talking Basset hound help Elvis Presley defeat an evil time-traveling alien hellbent on destroying the galaxy?
Ace Tucker is a man who was raised in outer space and taught how to be human by a Russian cyborg chimpanzee. Ace earns a living as a rock-and-roll roadie and cargo hauler for the greatest band in the galaxy, Mustache Supernova. His world is turned upside down the night he meets Elvis Presley, the very not-dead King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. When Ace saves Elvis from an alien assassin he must travel to Memphis, Tennessee to restore Presley’s health. But things are not what they seem at Elvis’s pastoral home, Graceland. There, Ace makes a discovery that has the power to shape the future (and potentially undo the past).

I just love this cover! Great concept too. Can’t wait to get my hands on this book!

Ventra's Thirst

Ruby Winter

Ventra's Thirst
Ruby Winter

A Hard Reset: (The Disruption, Book Zero)

C.A. Huggins

A Hard Reset: (The Disruption, Book Zero)
C.A. Huggins

Disrupt |disˈrəpt|
: to cause (something) to be unable to continue in the normal way
: to interrupt the normal progress or activity of (something)

Marcus Nelson only wanted to take his son, Ali, on a college visit to Stanford University. An earthquake quickly turns the well intentioned father-son trip into an afternoon of terror.

In A Hard Reset, the world before the earthquake does not exist anymore. The father, son, and the son's friend must use everything at their disposal to escape from the Stanford campus. Along with other survivors, they devise a plan to make it home safely. But any mistake can prove to be a fatal one.

Own Worst Enemy: A Herc Braveman Adventure

Herschel Stroganoff

Own Worst Enemy: A Herc Braveman Adventure
Herschel Stroganoff

Zapp Brannigan meets Archer in this darkly comedic space adventure.
When something goes wrong during a hyperwarp, Space Captain Herc Braveman finds himself in a mystical shop filled with ironically cursed items.
Picking a P.L.O.T. device that can destroy his worst enemy, Herc might have bitten off more than he can chew.
If you like hilarious space adventures in the vein of Golden Age sci-fi, you’ll love Herschel K. Stroganoff’s space comedy.
For fans of Archer, Rick and Morty, South Park, and Space Team. Get your copy today!

Sundown Apocalypse 5: Special Ops

Leo Nix

Sundown Apocalypse 5: Special Ops
Leo Nix

Thus began the Apocalypse of the book of Revelations.
While holidaying at the beautiful Western Australian seaside city of Geraldton, US Ranger, Staff Sergeant Ben ‘Obi-Wan’ Kennedy, leads his group of special ops and their female friends through a series of dangerous adventures on their return to home base, Pine Gap Secret Intelligence Facility.
Join the dedicated men and women who take their responsibilities seriously: to protect their friends, lovers and their community.
Behind the tragedy and sorrow, leaders emerge. They carry their comrades until they are able to lift their burdens by themselves.
A story of betrayal, subterfuge, friendship, and love, against a background of survival in the rugged Australian desert.

Willow Rising

KM Fortune

Willow Rising
KM Fortune

When Willow is forced to escort an orphaned girl, Emilia, back to her people, the journey turns out to be anything but easy. Fighting both man and beast, Willow must seek courage from within to keep both of them alive.

The Whistle

Lee Isserow

The Whistle
Lee Isserow

Inspired by a series of whistleblowers, Scott and Jennifer decide the work they've been doing for their nefarious employers needs to be brought into the light.
But the company is prepared to go further than either of them could have ever expected to make sure the whistle stays silent.

The Whistle is a prequel to the novel The Human Trials, available exclusively at Amazon.

Fun and intruiging! Who DOESN’t want to read about a magical P.I.? Especially one who is a little less than perfect and is about to find himself in heaps of supernatural trouble!

Karak Warrior

Ruby Ryan

Karak Warrior
Ruby Ryan

Something in my brain broke the day I learned of the Karak.

It’s been two weeks since the Karak made first contact on earth, and the town of Elijah, Wyoming will never be the same. Now inundated with UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists, Leslie doesn’t know how she’s going to keep the peace as the town’s only police officer.
So in the end, she doesn’t.
But sneaking aboard Jerix’s spacecraft has widespread consequences Leslie could never have predicted. Jerix faces a devastating punishment for bringing back a live human to the Karak homeworld: three rounds of shifter-fighting in the Karak Sunken Pit!

Rebel (Engineered Rebel Book One)
L.C. Mawson

Alex was genetically engineered and trained from birth to hunt magical beings, but she left that life behind for the love of an angel.

But when fate, and Alex's former family, separate them, Alex is left with no choice. If she ever wants to be free - to stop running - she'll have to turn and fight those who raised her.

The question is, can she do it alone, or will she have to trust her former friends and siblings who may very well be spies for the enemy?

REBEL is the first book in the Engineered Rebel series and is part of L.C. Mawson's Snowverse.

Treasure Darkly

Jordan Elizabeth

Treasure Darkly
Jordan Elizabeth

Seventeen-year-old Clark Treasure assumes the drink he stole off the captain is absinthe… until the chemicals in the liquid give him the ability to awaken the dead.

A great invention for creating perfect soldiers, yes, but Clark wants to live as a miner, not a slave to the army—or the deceased. On the run, Clark turns to his estranged, mining tycoon father for help. The Treasures welcome Clark with open arms, so he jumps at the chance to help them protect their ranch against Senator Horan, a man who hates anyone more powerful than he.

Gehenna Dawn by Jay Allan
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Book One of the bestselling Portal Wars series...

Erastus. An unimaginable nightmare. A searing hot world, covered with cracked, burning deserts and sweltering jungles. A hostile planet far from Earth, it was the most hellish place men have ever tried to survive. Called Gehenna by the condemned men sent to fight there, it forged the few who survived its murderous battles into the strongest soldiers in history.

Jake Taylor was a New Hampshire farmboy who wanted nothing more than to marry his girlfriend, work on the farm, and maybe one day write a great novel. But mankind was fighting the alien Tegeri and their bio-mechanical cyborg soldiers, and UN Central needed men…men to go to war on hostile worlds like Erastus.

This is one of Jay Allan's best MSF Series you will ever read. I gave this Book 4 Stars on Goodreads and the story gets even better in Books 2 and 3. Check out my Review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1549693826

Tsar Wars: Agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service, Book 1
Stephen Goldin

Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the 21st century! Agents of ISIS is the modern re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the forces of chaos and destruction.

With humanity scattered across the galaxy on hundreds of worlds, the Empire is the only force for order across the stars. Without it, interstellar conflicts would bring chaos and billions of deaths.

But the tsar's been in a coma for five years now, and the only apparent heir is his 14-year-old grandniece. In this hour of crisis, the task of preserving the Empire falls to two untrained agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service. Can they make a difference against the vast forces arrayed against them?

I'm honored to be able to include Nebula Finalist Stephen Goldin's Scavenger Hunt in my "select few" Group Giveaway. This vintage classic channels Barbarella while dishing out such delightfully diva-esque dialogue as "I'd turn positively green with envy, except then I'd clash with my own gown, so of course I won't" and "I've had three husbands since then... No, don't ask me what their names were, darling, I'm not an almanac..."

Rescuing Prince Charming

Edward Hoornaert

Rescuing Prince Charming
Edward Hoornaert

Dusty Johnson, a self-styled ordinary, everyday woman, responds with extraordinary heroism when saboteurs try to bomb the prototype of Earth's first starship. Although she yearns to return to anonymity, that moment of courage propels her ever deeper into dangers that tear the scabs off her dark secrets—and thrust her into the arms of the unattainable man of her dreams.

Reese Eaglesbrood, an alien prince, yearns to restore his tattered reputation by guiding the starship project to completion, but his fascination with the unassuming heroine threatens to undermine his fragile authority. Shunning Dusty is necessary, yet unthinkable—and when the saboteurs strike again, she is his only ally against Earth's most elusive enemies.

City of Skies

Farah Cook

City of Skies
Farah Cook

Nora Hunt has just joined the deadly quest to discover an ancient legend: the nine worlds of the Vikings. Her post-apocalyptic dystopian world, Triangle of Peace, is the only home she’s ever known. But at sixteen years old, the skilled young warrior joins an elite band of raiders called Jarls. Her mission? Merely to win the perilous battle for the artifacts that awaken the Viking realms and avoid falling in love with the charming boy who just happens to be her worst enemy—and she’s not quite sure which task is more difficult. But when Nora learns the Norse gods bestowed upon her a mystical secret in the form of the tattoo on her back, the stakes are higher than ever to claim the great Viking Empires.

Deliberate Chaos (FreightBros Series Book 1)

Nate Castle

Deliberate Chaos (FreightBros Series Book 1)
Nate Castle

If you accidentally caused a death in the most indirect way imaginable
Would you turn yourself in or cover your tracks?
At what point would you begin misusing resources at work for personal gain
Knowing that you could end up behind bars or worse?
These are the questions Corben must answer.

When They Came

Kody Boye

Lunacy on Omega Station

Gentry Race

Lunacy on Omega Station
Gentry Race

What will you do to survive?

Commander Laura Hawke and crew investigates a strange signal on the moon. A signal that has manipulated her son's well being for months. Now, she must find the answers and get safely back to Earth. However, an entity has awoken and will stop at nothing to get it's power back.

Fans of Alien, Raypunk, and Gravity will love Moonscape as it opens the vast series to The Shattered Cosmos.

Lovely retro cover. can't wait to open this one... and raypunk is a top notch niche genre.

Ruby Gryphon

Ruby Ryan

Ruby Gryphon
Ruby Ryan

Roland is an Irish bare-knuckle boxer with an attitude and a shadowy past.

Harriet is an MIT grad student about to embark on a research expedition to Mozambique.

They never planned on their lives becoming irreversibly intertwined.

The third gryphon to be unleashed, Roland is struggling to cope with his newly discovered shifter power. But aircraft are mysteriously crashing in Mozambique, and it has nothing to do with the eruption of Monte Muambe. When Roland learns that Harriet is in jeopardy from the Ruby Dragon, he chooses to abandon his friends to save her.

Even though it means tracking her across the African plain.

Can he reach his new mate in time—and learn about the dragons’ sinister motives in the process? Or will the Ruby Dragon’s crimson flame be too powerful to withstand?

Fractured Memories
Jo Schneider

Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives, and her confidence in her fighting ability. When the Skinnies attack her compound, she is the lone survivor.

Injured and near death, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health by mysterious strangers. Her saviors offer her a place among them, but trust has never been one of Wendy's strengths, and suspicion soon leads to evidence that these people might be the group who killed her family.

The decision to get her revenge, and take the settlement down from the inside out is easy. Keeping her distance from those she must befriend in order to make it happen proves to be much more difficult.

Karak Invasion

Ruby Ryan

Karak Invasion
Ruby Ryan

Two alien lovers are better than one.

Brandi Forbes is sick of her work at Mountain Home Air Force Base. A once talented pilot but now a Lieutenant Colonel, the only thing she ever gets to pilot these days is the stack of paperwork on her desk.

Until she’s visited by two Karak aliens who warn her of a potential Wolvae invasion of earth.

And as important as that may be, it’s tough for Brandi to focus while the aliens look like male super models.

But before the three of them can come up with a plan, Brandi and her two new Karak hunks learn the Wolvae are already on earth gathering reconnaissance! Now they must work together to stop the Wolvae scouts from returning to their fleet with vital information—or else risk a full invasion of earth.

The Memory Thief
Sarina Dorie

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Steampunk. Mystery. Romance. She will do anything to retrieve her memories, even if it means crossing the galaxy. . . .

Felicity is betrothed to a British noble of rank and fortune. Her life should be perfect. Yet she will never achieve happiness—until her memories have been returned by the man who stole them.

In pursuit of her past, Felicity returns to an alien planet. Her only hope for finding answers about her mysterious past is performing the Jomon courtship ritual of memory exchange. Only when she learns to let go of her fears can she learn the secrets that may aid in the freedom of the Jomon people—and herself.

Just think if that was possible? This story has so much exciting potential when it comes to 'what-if' scenarios. Add the sci-fi element to a thrilling romance, I believe this book has every ingredient needed for a great book.
All the best.

I downloaded this book as something to read over my lunch break and completely fell in love! I found the characers so wonderful and believable. The world-building is just amazing! I definitely will be looking up the rest of the Womby's School for Wayward Witches books!

The Paradox Syndrome

Megan Cutler

She Died in My Arms (The Children of Clay ser...

Ono Ekeh

She Died in My Arms (The Children of Clay series prequel)
Ono Ekeh

In a post-apocalyptic world, 4,000 years into the future, Captain Senaya is the first of the Jaru military forces to arrive at the far northern temple of the imposter deity, Queen Nouei. Senaya knows her task, arrest and force the queen to recant her blasphemous claims to divinity. Resistance is expected to be minimal. The Queen’s forces have been soundly defeated and she is vulnerable. For a seasoned operative like Captain Senaya, arresting a weak queen should not be a problem. But then, why is it?

Dark Space Universe by Jasper T. Scott

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Dark Space Universe by Jasper T. Scott
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THE UNIVERSE IS DARKER THAN WE THOUGHT... Lucien Ortane is a Paragon in the Etherian Empire. His job is to explore the universe and spread Etherian doctrines of peace, justice, and immortality to sentient beings everywhere. Like all Paragons, and most citizens, Lucien believes that Etherus, the benevolent ruler of the Empire, is exactly who he claims to be: the one true God and creator of the universe.But not everyone is a believer.The Academy of Science circulates a petition to send a mission to the cosmic horizon and learn the true nature of the universe. Over a billion people sign it, and Etherus grants their request, but with a dire warning: evil is lurking in the dark.Undaunted by this warning, three hundred million scientists from the Academy prepare to leave the Empire on what will

This is one of Jay Allan's best MSF Series you will ever read. I gave this Book 4 Stars on Goodreads and the story gets even better in Books 2 and 3. Check out my Review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1549693826

Damage Inc. Issue 1
james burton

Damage Inc. is the story of a few fiends who start a club hunting own paranormal creatures and superpowered Metahumans for bounties! The only problem is they suck at it. This issue is to short stories about Damage Inc. one where they hunt a Necromancer, and the other Cannibalistic Mermaids. Both are filled with Smack talk, gunfights, and explosions.

The Cartel: The Apprentice, Volume 1

EG Manetti

SAMPLE of The Cost of Survival

J. L. Stowers

Starstuff

Ira Heinichen

Charlotte's Army

Patty Jansen

Charlotte's Army
Patty Jansen

An army of 7000 artificial soldiers accidentally received the same brain implant: they are all in love with the same woman.

A space fleet with seven thousand artificial human marines hurtles through space at near-light-speed to an interstellar war...

Doctor Charlotte West, the neuro-technologist responsible for the soldiers’ artificial brains, travels in the support fleet. Two months before the arrival at the war site, the marines start fighting each other and disobeying commands.

When they are brought in for tests, Charlotte finds that someone has made a disastrous mistake that endangers the entire space fleet. They're all in love with her.

I'm delighted to include Patty Jansen's Ambassador 1: Seeing Red among my "select few." Deftly and swiftly, her beginning shifts into high, machine-gunning intriquing clues vis a vis later reveals. One knows just enough about what's going on to continue reading without scratching one's head, but not enough to make the whole book a fait accompli. Quick immersion in tight, realistic action promises a great read.

No matter what Patty Jansen writes, there is always that underlying personality that makes her books interesting AND there are her sometimes wildly imaginative worlds that forgo the bounds of what we all know and expect. They give us something entertaining and surprising. And she is Australian. If that comment doesn't make sense then you will have to just read her stories to see what I mean. It is meant in a good way.

Very intriguing! This is promising to be very interesting series... Keep it coming, Patty!

Path to Old Talbot

Jordan Elizabeth

Path to Old Talbot
Jordan Elizabeth

Charity can escape her unpleasant reality by stepping through the parlor closet of her mother’s new home, a mansion built in the 1800’s. In her hometown of Talbot, New York, in the year 1880, she doesn’t have to worry about her depressed father skipping his medications or her mother flirting with her coworker. Instead, she gets to know the hatter’s son, who shows her a lifestyle of manners and pride. Few have ever accepted Charity’s old-fashioned ways…until now. However, old Talbot can’t banish the present. Charity can stay in the mansion, with access to the hatter’s son in the past, and the prospect of a steady family unit with her mother and the new man in her mother’s life, or she can go back to her father, who has been given the option to straighten out his life.

Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 1
J. Jack Bergeron

Think NASA's last shuttle flight was the end of American technological space dominance?
July 21, 2011 might have been the final date of the Atlantis shuttle flight, but it sure wasn't the end of amazing discoveries.
In PART 1 of this fictionalized series of that flight, the crew comes into first contact with alien extraterrestrials who discover the Atlantis space shuttle as they are finishing their last few orbits around Earth.
If earthlings are stunned at this UFO sighting, the aliens are even more stunned. . .

(note: all people in this novel are fictionalized characters who have no relationship or bearing with anyone in the space program past or present.)

The Antiterrorist: A Jake Corby Sci-Fi Thrill...

Al Macy

The Antiterrorist: A Jake Corby Sci-Fi Thriller
Al Macy

Satellites are disappearing one by one. Not exploding, not dropping out of the sky, just disappearing.

When the Hubble Space Telescope vanishes, Jake Corby is dispatched to figure out who or what is responsible. He's used to solving problems for the FBI, but hunting down missing satellites? That's a new one.

Corby must struggle to track down and thwart the terrorists yet stay true to the promise he made to his wife: "I won't do anything heroic." In the heat of the moment, he finds that it's no easy matter to achieve both goals. Especially when the future of the United States space program is at risk.

Super Secret Space Mission

Chris Lowry

Super Secret Space Mission
Chris Lowry

When Dawes and Carver are mistaken for super soldiers after a wrong turn down a road that dead ends in a secret military base, they are shot into outer space to save the world from an invading alien race. Two bumblers are the only thing standing between a hostile takeover and the end of the world as we know it. What could go wrong?

I love this cover and premise. As a big zombie fan, this one looks good!

The Fallen Empire Collection by Lindsay Burok...

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The Fallen Empire Collection by Lindsay Buroker
Discover Sci-Fi

A fighter pilot on a mission to reunite with her daughter. A cyborg soldier on a quest to regain his humanity. Mortal enemies during the war, they must now work together to salvage a seventy-year-old freighter and navigate the gauntlet of pirates, scavengers, mercenaries, and other pitfalls that stand in their way after the fall of the largest empire mankind has ever known.

This is one of Jay Allan's best MSF Series you will ever read. I gave this Book 4 Stars on Goodreads and the story gets even better in Books 2 and 3. Check out my Review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1549693826

Paradigm The Novella
Alan Ferreira

Exiled to a hostile planet, a man must survive using ancient technology and his determination to reach back home.

Sapphire Gryphon

Ruby Ryan

Sapphire Gryphon
Ruby Ryan

Sam can’t take his eyes of the totem he found in Belize, and he doesn’t dare let anyone else learn it’s in his possession. He knows there’s something special about the stone figurine, even if he can’t quite figure it out.

Until Ezra, a professional pick-pocketer, steals it from him in the Denver airport.

But Ezra has eyes only for the enormous sapphire set into the stone, and can’t possibly imagine the totem’s true value. So it’s the surprise of a lifetime when she accidentally triggers Sam’s terrible, beastly transformation.

Bouncing between drug dealers and mohawk-wearing psychopaths, Sam and Ezra must find a way to protect the totem—and each other. Can they master their power quickly enough to escape the dragon chasing them, or will they be burnt to a crisp in dragonfire?

Love the new cover! PENDOMUS is an imaginative dystopian sci-fi that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

The Future Chronicles Created by Samuel Peral...

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The Future Chronicles Created by Samuel Peralta
Discover Sci-Fi

The Future Chronicles is the Special Edition of the acclaimed #1 SFF anthology series, including fifteen stories, selected and new, from some of today's best writers in speculative fiction.

The Future Chronicles - Special Edition includes fifteen stories, selected and new, from some of today's best writers in speculative fiction.

It includes ten selected stories from some of the Chronicles' popular titles - Robot, Telepath, Alien, and A.I. - to give new readers a taste of the series; and includes five completely new stories, first published in this Special Edition.

This is one of Jay Allan's best MSF Series you will ever read. I gave this Book 4 Stars on Goodreads and the story gets even better in Books 2 and 3. Check out my Review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1549693826

HOLLYWOOD - Cyn City Cyborgs
Pearl Foxx

"All right, Hollywood, time for your first lesson: don't let some random stranger take you home. You never know what kind of trouble you might find."

He lives a charmed life in skycity
She’s got an attitude sharpened in the Cyn City Slums.

What she finds beneath his cocky attitude though is worth more than all the titanium on Earth. But without the technology, metal, and biology she’s promised the cynker, Sage is going to have to make good somehow, even if it means donating herself.

The Disappeared (Short Story)

Irving Belateche

The Disappeared (Short Story)
Irving Belateche

Robert Grayson was becoming invisible. There was no doubt about it. And it made sense if you took a second to think about it. Robert was an average guy with an average job in an average American suburb. Invisibility was bound to happen. So the question wasn't why was he becoming invisible, it was were there other invisible people out there, too?

"Like the great Ray Bradbury, Belateche invents a world much like yours and mine but with that one twist that makes it different." -- A. Silver

Emerald Gryphon

Ruby Ryan

Emerald Gryphon
Ruby Ryan

A priceless totem. An unexplainable transformation. And a secret he can’t keep from her for long.

GRYPHONS VS DRAGONS is the new paranormal shapeshifter series from Ruby Ryan. There’s steamy romance, exciting action, and no cliffhangers. Each book in the series can be read standalone, and of course each features a Happily Ever After!

The Legion and the Lioness
Robert Armstrong

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They said I would never finish flight school. Never rank at the top of my class. Never fly with the top aces. Never return from combat against the Kelton androids. Never survive emergency surgery.
Here I am.
The year is 2151, Earth is gone. A hell scape. I’ve been awoken after 72 years of cryosleep on a medical facility on Saturn’s moon, Titan. I have nothing, no home, no friends, no concept of this new world, these Titans.
All that remains is the old conflict that has blackened my veins and memories of the ones I loved still fresh in my heart. Forgotten for decades.
But it seems war hasn’t forgotten me, no, even in my slumber. My name is Captain Victoria Ann Belic, I was a wife and an ace fighter pilot, and have been revived for one reason—to die again.

Alone

Courtney Konstantin

Alone
Courtney Konstantin

The world has fallen into apocalypse.
Flesh-eating zombies run rampant.
And the kids are on their own.
Easton and Candace Reynolds have been separated from their makeshift family. They have no food, no transportation— and have become targets for more than just zombies. A dangerous group of survivors are hunting the siblings, and they’re looking to kill them before the cold or starvation does.
To survive, Easton and Candace have to make some tough decisions. Is sacrificing their humanity worth their lives? Can they outlast the zombies and predators? Or is there truly no escape for the Reynolds kids?
Will they be forced to live out the end-of-the-world, ALONE?

Cover sets the scene, fantastic premise, looking forward to going into the story.

Sweet Little Devil

Breanna Hayse

Earth Seven and the History Department at The...

Steve M

Earth Seven and the History Department at The University of Centrum Kath - a Science Fiction Satire
Steve M

What if weapons technology advances so fast that a military science fiction universe would be a death sentence?

Simply put, we'd create a weapon that can destroy everything and some idiot would use it.

Welcome to the universe after we finally conquer the urge to blow up everything.
But even a universe at peace, is still a very dangerous place.

22 years ago, a spaceship crashed on Earth Seven, a primitive 3 rated planet under contact quarantine. The boy who found the wreckage is now the man who will unite the planet under his rule.

Earth Seven is a story that challenges basic sci-fi assumptions and offers new alternatives. What started as simple thoughts, 'Why do they always ..., what if …,' resulted in Earth Seven, a small book of big ideas.

Avogadro Corp

William Hertling

Avogadro Corp
William Hertling

David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.

David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they are being manipulated by an A.I. who is redirecting corporate funds, reassigning personnel and arming itself in pursuit of its own agenda.

"Chilling and compelling" -- Wired

The Arrival

Adair Hart

The Arrival
Adair Hart

Jake Melkins is a few months away from turning twenty-one. By the Seceltor Empire’s laws, he will have to go to a breeding camp, or directly into slavery. Neither choice appeals to him. All this changes with the arrival of a space-and-time-traveling being known as Evaran at the space station turned rest stop that Jake lives on.

To make things complicated, Greecho, the slaver who abducted Jake as a kid, has arrived at the station. He and his crew, along with his twenty-two-year-old human pet, Kathy, are about to go on a slave run to Earth.

Evaran has decided to interfere and free Jake and Kathy. That decision will lead him to Earth, where he will need to deal with the consequences.

Prepared

Courtney Konstantin

Prepared
Courtney Konstantin

She thought she was prepared for the end of the world… until it actually came.

Alex Duncan is a mother, a sister— and the daughter of a doomsday prepper. She always thought her father was insane, raving about an apocalypse she never believed in, but when a plague hits the United States and the dead no longer stay dead, Alex discovers heeding her deceased father’s advice is what will keep her family alive. Before he died, Alex’s father created a compound in Montana just in case situations like this arose.

Hell has arrived on earth.

The dead walk, hungry for human flesh. Living in a highly populated city like Las Vegas makes the reality of the plague imminent to Alex. With little time to spare, Alex must make split-second decisions to prevent her family from being devoured.

Cover sets the scene, fantastic premise, looking forward to going into the story.

The Descendants

DH Bookstore

The Descendants
DH Bookstore

Monroe Academy was built to separate the weak from the strong. Pass the biyearly leveling and be released into society upon graduation. Fail to be promoted and be stripped of rank and forced into servitude.

That was a rule that applied to all but Rayah Bardeau. A student of Monroe Academy, branded as a Null because of her absence of Lighter energy. With her mother standing as a slave in her place, Rayah was given until the age of twenty to make level six, but at nineteen-years-old and with only eight months until her twentieth birthday, she was only a mere level one. The same level she’s been since she was ten.

With the stress of her upcoming test, the loss of a friend, and the constant wrongdoings towards her, Rayah could only dream of escaping from Lytonia, and escape she did...

Counteract: Book One of the Resistance Series

Tracy Lawson

Counteract: Book One of the Resistance Series
Tracy Lawson

Who do you trust when your world unravels and everything you believed is a lie?

Teenagers Tommy and Careen have never known life without Civilian Restrictions, which are meant to protect them from the rampant threat of terrorism. When disaster strikes, they discover a web of lies and deceit. Who are the real terrorists?

"[Counteract] had me surprised around every corner. Lawson is going to be one of those authors to watch in the near future for sure." --Brian's Review Blog

Selected

Evelyn Lederman

Selected
Evelyn Lederman

Destruction.... A show of force... And a warning...

Three isolated towns across the world have been destroyed in a show of force by alien invaders. It is a clear warning of what will occur if their demands are not fulfilled. The fulfillment: Human children between the ages of twelve through fifteen years.

Kara Harper is an unremarkable fourteen-year-old girl who is selected by the aliens. She will be physically and socially orientated during the six months it will take to arrive at the planet Zaratan. The girl who liked the safety of being invisible, cannot help but stand out.

Remnants of Hope: A Rogue Star Story

Antoine Henderson

Scarred

M. Louis Lambert

Scarred
M. Louis Lambert

Reece Oliver is on the run. After participating in an experimental drug program to rid himself of his destructive alcoholism, he discovers he had been lied to. The doctors leading the program never intended to cure Reece. The drugs were supposed to devolve subjects into an earlier form of man. What Reece became, however, was altogether different. He now must remain one step ahead of the doctors, while fighting the urge to use his new abilities, for if he does, he is left with one more scar.

The Humanarium

C.W Tickner

The Humanarium
C.W Tickner

A world forged by an alien. Humanity held hostage and one man who must take the leash off our species.

He lives within an alien's terrarium, designed to cage the last humans in the galaxy.
Orphaned blacksmith Harl Eriksson lives in a tank. He hates the "god" that rules over the land. He must escape captivity but what lay beyond the four sides of his land?

Those around him praise the titanic creature as a living god but Harl despises the giant that ripped his family from him and vows to put an end to humanity's misery.

The mystery around his rectangular world is revealed as Harl makes a desperate break for freedom and discovers a sinister truth.

Battles must be fought, loyalties must tested and only then can freedom be won.

Delve into the Humanarium today for an epic adventure

Arkship Countdown

Niel Bushnell

Arkship Countdown
Niel Bushnell

"Dune meets Battlestar Galactica, with a pinch of Asimov thrown in for good measure."

Earth has been destroyed, the entire solar system turned to dust by a cataclysmic event known as the Fracture. Now, the last survivors of humanity live on vast arkships drifting through the Cluster, doing what they can to survive in a hostile ever-changing environment.

Life on board the Ark Royal Obsidian is a quiet routine for Chief of the engine deck, Bran Colmen. That is until his family is kidnapped and he is forced to steal secrets about the vast arkship's engines by a covert intruder. As time runs out, Colmen finds himself trapped between saving his family and averting a war that could kill thousands.

Arkship Countdown is the prologue for the epic new series from British author Niel Bushnell.

Niel Bushnell's Arkship Obsidian is, plain and simple, THE mother of all start-out-in-the-burning-building tales. It's the kind of read that's so immediately engrossing that the reader risks failing to notice if a stampede of T-rexes is approaching in real life. The reader is TOLD nothing, but EXPERIENCES everything. Truly magnificent writing!

The Cannibal's Feast
Robert I. Katz

A science fiction adventure with a cast of larger-than-life characters and the stars as background.

Matthew Braden, a young man from a run-down habitat in Earth orbit is determined to succeed. Assigned to Cygnus, the Security Division of the Biotek-Itachi Gesselschaft, Matthew’s has been given enhanced senses and increased physical abilities. Sent on a secret mission to make contact and establish trade with an advanced alien species, Matthew’s ship is destroyed by the forces of the Hyperion-Narita Combine, Biotek’s principal corporate adversary. Now condemned to labor in a slave camp on an unregistered planet, Matthew finds his new abilities stretched to the limit, as he struggles to do what he does best: survive...and come out on top.

Constant

Elizabeth Munro

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Independence

Alasdair Shaw

Independence
Alasdair Shaw

In the aftermath of a battle a ship drifts helplessly in space. Is the strange new warship they were fighting still out there? Will it come back for them? Commander Johnson faces a desperate race to get her destroyer back into action and save her crew.

"If you liked Alien, you'll love Independence."
"This is an incredible work ... suspense, mystery and intrigue."
"Loved every word of it."
"There's more action and intrigue packed into this story than there is in many full length novels."
"Shaw's world is engaging and clearly has depth, even from this brief encounter."

This bonus edition, exclusive to instaFreebie, contains the P-file of one of the main characters and a few other little goodies.

Dustrunner
Dean F. Wilson

Nox is a wanted man.

While searching for a criminal, the fabled Coilhunter wanders into a tribal village massacre. He didn’t do it, but that doesn’t matter. The clues point to him, and he’s made a lot of enemies over the years. Many would happily see the tables turned.

His pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears. No sooner does he try to find the real killers than posters go up across the Wild North—posters with his face and his name. He isn’t the only bounty hunter out there. Dozens assemble to cash him in.

Tasked with finding out who’s framed him, Nox must also survive the constant onslaught of frontier law. He’s used to hunting others. He’s not so used to life on the run.

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This is a standalone book in the Coilhunter Chronicles series, which can be read in any order.

Wilson created a world that you can so easily submerge yourself in and stay there from one page to another. It's a great start for an exciting series...

Flowers Vs. Zombies: Genesis

Perrin Briar

Flowers Vs. Zombies: Genesis
Perrin Briar

One island. One family. A million zombies.

After a tropical storm, the Robinson family discovers a mysterious boat shipwrecked on their shore. An attempt to scavenge the wreckage awakens something dark and extremely dangerous. With the full weight of the undead descending down upon them, can the family prepare a strong enough defense? Or will they become the latest victims of a virus-ridden world?

Karak Contact

Ruby Ryan

Karak Contact
Ruby Ryan

A mysterious satellite crash. A late-night car accident. And a stranger who looks shockingly identical to the man on the front of Joanna’s book.
After hitting Eric in her car in the middle of the Wyoming wilderness, Joanna has no choice but to take him back to her cabin. But his wounds heal suspiciously fast, and she begins to suspect that his concussion is actually covering up some deeper secret.
She never would have guessed the truth.
When she discovers that the man she’s taken to bed is actually Arix, a shifter from the Karak Dominion of Planets, it’s all she can do not to run in terror. But as UFO hunters who noticed the spacecraft crash begin snooping around her cabin, Joanna and Arix are going to have to find a way to safety—which may lead to them both making an impossible decision.

Girl of Glass
Megan O'Russell

Two worlds. One glass wall. No turning back.
The human race has been divided. The chosen few live in the safety of the domes, watching through their glass walls as those left on the outside suffer and die. But desperation has brought invention. New drugs have the ability to alter humans, giving them the strength to roam the poisoned night unafraid—but survival comes at a terrible price.
Seventeen-year-old Nola Kent has spent her life in the domes, training to protect her little piece of the world within the glass.
When the fate of an outsider child falls into her hands, Nola dares to venture beyond the security of her home, diving into a world of darkness and vampires.
As blood washes over the domes, Nola must choose between her home and her heart.

The next Huge Howey! The world this author has created leaves you spellbound and wondering the fate of Nola, a teenage classmate in a world lived inside a glass. I love the description of details given, and the obvious set up for mind-blowing suspense. I can't wait to read more by this author.

Sink: Old Man's Tale

Perrin Briar

Sink: Old Man's Tale
Perrin Briar

A sinkhole is a natural phenomenon. It can happen anywhere, anytime. It drinks lakes dry, consumes jungles, and even demolishes entire mountains. You may have seen one in your street. But these things aren't lost. They've simply been moved. Things are forgotten on the surface all the time. Beneath the crust, they're always remembered.

It's just another day for unscrupulous developer Graham Turner when he breaks into an old man's home to steal his property deeds. But when he's sucked through a sinkhole into a forgotten world deep beneath the earth's surface, Graham and the old man must rely on each other if they are to survive and escape this dangerous new world and return to the surface.

Sink. A forgotten world. A lost world. But not for long.

Time Control: Pike Gillette Book 1

Rex Bolt

The Dimensional Shift

Frances Pauli

The Dimensional Shift
Frances Pauli

Chloe Watson is an ordinary girl looking forward to a nice, peaceful winter, until she finds a bizarre artifact in a hotel room and meets its owner, Andrew Paige. He might look like an ordinary suit, but he's got a string of secrets hiding behind his knee-weakening smile. When he offers her a job at The Dimensional Shift, Chloe is tossed straight into the world of inter-dimensional tourists and their odd accommodations.

Between dealing with the Shift's unusual guests, and trying to determine if the boss' interest in her is strictly professional, Chloe uncovers a plot to steal the hotel's dimensional keys. With the help of the town gossip, her alien abductee neighbor, and her new invisible best friend, Chloe confronts and inter-dimensional crime ring and a host of complications that make

Endurance

C.S. Harte

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Perrin Briar

Skip: Book 1
Perrin Briar

A Mysterious Clock Controls Time. What Happens When It Breaks?

The clock tower is the center of the town of Time. It counts down the hours, minutes and seconds of every passing day. But unbeknownst to the local inhabitants, it is at the center of a great deal more than that. It is the center of the universe and controls time itself. But it is old and beginning to break, sending the worlds inhabitants skipping forward and back through time.

Seventeen-year-old Jera Wythnos, betrothed to marry a powerful lord, runs to escape her responsibilities and pursue her dream of traveling the world. Hot on her heels is her betrothed, moving heaven and earth to find her before the wedding day.

Maniai Case File 1: The Girl And The Blood Sl...

George Saoulidis

Maniai Case File 1: The Girl And The Blood Slide
George Saoulidis

What If There’s a Pattern to the Madness?

More and more people are reported being obsessed with unusual tasks and tested positive for rabies. But when an investigator finds a pattern to the madness and tries to tell people, will anyone listen?

Do you want to know what’s next for the inexperienced investigator? Do you wanna meet the crazies? Then read this thrilling patchwork of the weirdest bio-scare ever encountered.

Soulless Preview
Kate Rudolph

A warrior without a soul...
Raze NaFeen has sacrificed everything in service of his fellow Detyen warriors. Refugees without a planet, they search for answers. Who destroyed Detya all those years ago? And why? Otherwise cursed to die at thirty without a mate, Raze and his comrades have taken drastic action, destroying their souls and killing the emotions of young warriors to prolong their lives. Raze feels nothing. No love, no hate, no fear. Until he meets Sierra.

A spy on a mission...
Sierra Alvarez has a lot to live up to. As the daughter of a celebrated general, she's expected to follow in his militaristic footsteps and rise through the ranks of the Sol Defense Agency. Except Sierra is no soldier, her talents are best used for sneaking and subterfuge for Sol Intelligence. But when an o

The Hundred Gram Mission

Navin Weeraratne

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The Omega Prophecy: Ossuary

Elizabeth Bruce

The Omega Prophecy: Ossuary
Elizabeth Bruce

An ancient pact. The last offspring of a cursed bloodline. A dangerous secret that could destroy the world.

When Eva Savage is bequeathed a mysterious box by the murdered owner, she sets off on a journey of discovery that leads to long-buried Vatican brotherhoods, unknown scientific discoveries, and the revelation of true evil. With only her wits and vague memories of a troubled past, she uncovers a tainted family legacy and an inheritance that will change the world.

The Death Run

DH Bookstore

The Death Run
DH Bookstore

Four contestants: Emma, Glen, Myles, and Zackary.

Skills: Using a cross bow, killing, close combat, and evasion.

The day has finally come that a drawing is made for the next contestants to compete in the death run. They have all trained hard for this day, but only one will leave with their life. This race is meant for the strong, and only the strong will survive. Either way, at the end of the race, all contestants will be free whether it is in death or through the Forge Facility’s open doors

Surge Protection (The Sheffield Chronicles Bo...

Nate Castle

Surge Protection (The Sheffield Chronicles Book 1)
Nate Castle

Logan realized life as he knew it was over
Millions dead…
All from an alien attack on cell phone users.
Those who survived must march on
And find a way with few resources
To locate other survivors and
Live another day, alien free.

Through the Hostage

J C Steel

SAFE (preview)

Dawn Husted

SAFE (preview)
Dawn Husted

Compelling, fast-paced, and skillfully written, SAFE is a captivating dystopian novel with a “hold-on-to-your-seat climax.” What if the one place that’s supposed to keep you safe is the one place that could kill you? After the world is nearly destroyed, an island is preserved for survivors. Eighteen-year-old Penelope Evans lives in the Colony along with hundreds of other islanders. An impenetrable perimeter surrounds their homes and keeps everyone protected from the outside world. But when an unexpected meeting is scheduled, requesting all citizens, Penelope is on alert. This meeting springs a series of events that leaves her running for her life, leading further from normality and toward an epic truth. Can she survive inside a sealed perimeter?

I read this preview of Scythe of Darkness and I'm hooked. I want to grab the full story and immerse myself in the world of Mia and Thanatos. I'm very curious who Thanatos is and what the magnetic pull toward him is. I can't wait to read the rest of the story.